Title Daily data from Port Nolloth weather station, May 2018 to October 2022
Project Weather stations
Authors

Mbongeni Tyesi
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Specialist Scientist; contact details: email: mbongeni@environment.gov.za

Publisher Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (2023)
Contributors

Contact Person: Mbongeni Tyesi
Oceans and Coastal Research, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE); role: Specialist Scientist; contact details: email: mbongeni@environment.gov.za

Abstract Coastal, land based automatic weather stations situated in the West Coast of South Africa; Cape Columbine, Elands Bay and Port Nolloth have been actively collecting data for various project since 1982 until today at different locations. These instruments provide useful meteorological information for understanding coastal dynamics such as upwelling, ocean current movements and air sea exchange.
Methods All values were measured using a Vaisala Weather Transmitter WXT520, the raw data is unaltered data from the weather station
Data
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Temporal extent 23 May 2018 – 12 Oct 2022
Geographic extent

Port Nolloth, South Africa

North: -29.26471
South: -29.26472
West: 16.868681
East: 16.868682

Keywords Air Pressure, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN, Total Rainfall, Wind Direction, Wind Speed
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